BrowZine Hack 2.23.0 + Redeem Codes

I love this app - it’s sleek, easy to use, and has many of the journals I typically cite. Unfortunately for the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been to access any articles. When I try to open an article it says there’s an authentication error. I can still access everything normally through the browser version, so I’m thinking something changed in the latest app update? Looking forward to the next update to return to normal, thanks :)

This app is excellent for keeping up to speed on journals that i read when paired with access granted through my institution. Also the user interface is quite past century. Not a big inconvenience but probably not for millennial reader. Competitors rely on a model that takes after other social media sites (think continuous scroll of articles curated using an algorithm) vs this app which relies on the old age phenomenon of getting a physical copy of the journal and taking your time to browse through its content. The reality is that in this day and age modern readers do not like to be tied down to journal boundaries but rather appreciate a curated list of knowledge.
It also lacks in identifying the special interests of its readers and then coming up with suggestions.

I have been using Browzine like it’s my Sunday morning paper for about a year now. Until the latest update, I was very happy with the app and encouraged my friends (fellow grad students) to download and use it. I could even easily send papers to my friends if it looked like something they would be interested in. Alternatively, when a paper seemed very useful to my research, I found it incredibly easy to export the pdf to Zotero for reading and taking notes. It was an awesome, smooth experience.

I’m not sure what happened with the latest update. I now have to repeatedly log back in, have to decide whether I want to read the article’s html or see the pdf before previewing it, and when I send a paper to Zotero, it will not send the pdf.

These problems have made using Browzine on my iPad cumbersome.

I wish I had the old version where none of these problems were happening. Until the next version, which will hopefully fix these issues, I’m no longer encouraging people to download it on their iPads.

This app is a great way to read the journal at my campus library. My only gripe is it’s still really slow to load each article. Speed has improved in the recent release, but I still twiddle my thumbs while waiting.
Why can’t it download a whole journal at once? Or download several selected PDFs while I’m reading the first one?

The world of academic publishing is restrictive and slow to change, but BrowZine makes the best of this environment. It offers as near to seamless access to your library’s subscriptions as you’ll find anywhere.

The support team is very responsive and helpful, and the product developers are proactive in proposing and making improvements.

Pros:
1. Makes it easy to keep up to date
2. Remembers my login info (after some tweaking by their helpful support staff)
3. Easy to share link and pdf with colleagues

Cons:
1. No ability to automatically save pdf to cloud storage
2. No ability to annotate articles
3. Doesn’t remember what issue I was on last
4. Big yellow button to “remove from bookshelf” needs to be less conspicuous and harder to accidentally hit

Update to respond to developer: Thanks, but I don’t work for your company. I’m not going to login and tell your developers how to do their jobs. If this review isn’t good enough for them to figure out what needs to be done, or for someone from the company from copying and pasting these into the user request system, then it’s too bad for your company. Updating review to reflect poor use of user reviews.

I began using this app again to access a range of journals I (should) read. Super fast access to quality titles organized in an accessible taxonomy presented in full PDF. The updates have been terrific. Solid, consistent delivery year after year.

I’ve been using BrowZine for a few months, and the most recent update is great. It’s easy to use—login once and it remembers my infos, the app finds and loads PDFs quickly. I’ll keep using it for my reading!

I was very excited when I downloaded the app and found a number of journals of my interest. However, this app is not very useful because most of the schools are actually not on the list. And those schools that are on the list are quite surprising. For instance, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is on the list but the University of Oklahoma is not. The Medical U of South Carolina is on the list but not the University of South Carolina, Clemson, College of Charleston or any other South Carolina school.

In my last year of my PhD and wish I found this sooner! Definitely helps keep up-to-date on the literature. Much better than my workflow using Feedly.